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Organising our gothic writing to build tension

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I can structure my piece of gothic writing to build tension.

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It is important to create tension in Gothic writing because it keeps your reader in a state of anticipation. Keeping the reader in a state of anticipation makes reading the text a thrilling experience for the reader. You can build tension by delaying revealing key information, switching focus or ending with a cliff-hanger. Fronted adverbials tell us the way in which something is done. Fronted adverbials can be used to build tension.

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